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the first color photos per se were actually Daguerrotypes.
It occurred to me the other day, just after my last reply that one might be able to reproduce Lippman plates without the mercury (which works well but people are afraid of) or galinstan (which doesn't work particularly well due to the stickiness of gallium) by coating liquid emulsion onto a silvered or aluminized surface (glass or copper like a Dag plate). Expose and develop, then (optionally?) transfer the emulsion to a conventional base for viewing.
Coating directly on the silver would give the tightly coupled reflective surface Lippman needs, but I'm not certain how well it would work to free the emulsion from the silver after development. I envision bonding a sub-coated sheet to the emulsion, then gently heating the plate substrate from the back side.
The first part of this, at least, could be managed with Liquid Light (etc.) coated on a small surplus first surface flat mirror (fairly cheap from Surplus Shed). That would be within reasonable resources for initial experiments...
Nick Brandredth has successfully made Lippmann Plates showing color. I have one of them that he sent me packed away somewhere.
Shooting experiments like this may not be as cheap on LF as on digital systems,
Rare Collection of Early-Color Photos That Can Never See the Light of Day
They had to be sepcially digitized for viewing.petapixel.com
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